Parodied by the Upright Citizens Brigade, when a man tells a video store clerk that he had the title line in Star Wars. The man claims that, in a scene that was cut in the final release, he wanders into the Millennium Falcon for no good reason, says, "I'm just so tired of all these star wars," and walks out.

Mad Magazine's parody of the first film opened with a character in the midst of a space battle saying "Boy, this movie sure is noisy! Maybe that's why they called it—" splash opening title: STAR ROARS.

Blue Heelers liked doing this. Just to give one example, in the episode Pigs Will Fly, after the station bombing someone starts leaving bomb threats, one demanding "Fifty thousand or pigs will fly."

The name of the episodes in Criminal Minds are dropped in almost every episode.

Done in The Twilight Zone in many episodes, usually to point out the black humor ending. Some examples:

The episode The Long Game has a belated Title Drop; it ends without any reference to what the title meant at all. Not until the Doctor returns to the same location 100 years later, in Bad Wolf, does he realise "Someone's been playing a long game." (The title of "Bad Wolf" had, of course already been dropped all over the series.) And of course not mentioning the "Long Game" of the title until a later episode is itself a reference to the concept of the long game.

The War Doctor: What I did, I did without choice, in the name of peace and sanity.

11th Doctor: Yes, but not in the name of the Doctor.

Close in Time Heist. "It's not a bank heist; it's a time travel heist."

From the old series, the Doctor namedrops the title of the sixteenth season episode The Armageddon Factor after realizing that whoever is behind the war between Atrios and Zeos intends to allow both to be destroyed.

4th Doctor: There'll be a rather large bang, big enough to blow up Zeos, take Atrios with it, and make sure the whole thing ends in a sort of draw. That's the way these military minds work. The armageddon factor.

The meaning of the title Star Trek is fairly self-evident, so they managed to go without doing this for thirty years. Then, in Star Trek: First Contact, Zephram Cochrane says, "So you're astronauts, on some kind of star trek?" Also, in the Star Trek: The Next Generation finale Q nearly does it: "It's time to put an end to your trek through the stars".

Armus: I am a skin of evil, left here by a race of titans, who believed if they rid themselves of me, they would free the bounds of destructiveness.

"Ship in a Bottle":

Moriarty: Your crewmates here in my little ship in a bottle, seem a bit more optimistic.

"Tapestry":

Picard: There are many parts of my youth that I'm not proud of... there were loose threads... untidy parts of me that I would like to remove. But when I pulled on one of those threads... it had unraveled the tapestry of my life.

"All Good Things...":

Q: Goodbye, Jean-Luc. I'm gonna miss you... you had such potential. But then again, all good things must come to an end...

This is also done in some episodes such as the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky". "Plato's Stepchildren" is another memorable title drop, as it occurs within moments of the episode's beginning, and has relatively little relevance on the plot of the episode from then on.

Also in Star Trek VI, Chancellor Gorkon proposes a toast to "The Undiscovered Country: the future." Justified because everyone is constantly spouting William Shakespeare throughout the movie; but it's played as a bit of a gaffe/uncomfortable foreshadowing, because the real "undiscovered country" in Hamlet is death.

Subverted in the Star Trek: Voyager two-part episode "Year of Hell". When things first start to go pear-shaped Janeway says, "This is turning into the week of hell."

In the second episode of Hogan's Heroes, an Allied pilot looks down to see an arrow made by the lit cigarettes of the Stalag 13 men standing in formation and comments, "There they are, Hogan's Heroes." On a few other occasions they're referred to as the "Unsung Heroes" by the media.

Rita: And they think the stupidest things are funny. Michael: Yeah, that's a cultural problem is what it is. You know, your average American is in a perpetual state of adolescence, you know, arrested development. Narrator: Hey, that's the name of the show!

The pilot episode had a newspaper headline proclaiming "Arrested Developer!"

The episode "Justice is Blind" had a particularly clever one. "Justice" is the name of Maggie's alleged seeing-eye dog.

Eureka doesn't just title drop, it does a title sequence drop. It has always had part of the title sequence end with Carter watching buildings floating in mid-air. 4 seasons later, they have a problem of the week involving anti-gravity and they drop the title sequence mid-way through the episode, almost exactly like the title sequence, including the theme music.

Burn Notice also features a title sequence drop. The title sequence opens with Michael narrating "My name is Michael Weston. I used to be a spy." In the fifth season, another character introduces Michael near the end of an episode by saying "That's Michael Weston. He used to be a spy."

Mike does it himself during the season 1 finale.

In the second season, Stargate SG-1 frequently had a character reference the episode's title, but it always sounded more akin to Cochrane's "some kind of star trek" comment than anything profound.

On Orphan Black, Sarah asks her foster mother Mrs. S. where she came from. Turns out she was an orphan brought in from the underground... or, as S. describes it, "from the black."

On iCarly, Freddie thinks up the name, title drops it, then explains it a little more:

Freddie:i, Internet...Carly, you...

The episode iLove You has a Title Drop, but it's a Shocking Swerve. Everyone is expecting it to be one or both Sam and Freddie saying "I Love You" to the other in a romantic moment to cement them as the Official Couple, instead it's said after they break up as Sam is about to leave, and they stay broken up after.

While The West Wing doesn't qualify as a whole, a number of episodes do on their own, such as "Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc", "An Khe", "Eppur Si Muove" and the finale "Tomorrow" (it's the last line spoken in the entire show).

Most episodes of House feature Title Drops of the episode titles, which are otherwise not shown.

Slings and Arrows deliberately avoids dropping the title: in the first rehearsal where Jack (who's playing Hamlet) reads the "to be or not to be" soliloquy, he misspeaks and says "the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune".

Three of the four episodes of a miniseries called The Way We Live Now had one of these, although usually the exact wording would be changed to something like "The way people live now."

In Lost, many episodes feature Title Drops (even bizarre phrases such as "Tricia Tanaka is Dead"). The series' name is Title Dropped every episode, in lines as "we're lost", "we've lost him" et cetera..

How about Ben's "And now your more lost than you ever were"

Strangely, the writers set themselves up for and didn't use an amazing title drop opportunity in ''What They Died For" when Jacob is describing the attributes of the candidates. Everything he said would have been summed up nicely by saying "All of you were lost." but he just stops speaking.

Speaking of "What They Died For", Jacob drops the episode title when confronted about the recent deaths of Sayid, Jin and Sun; "Come and sit down, and I'll tell you what they died for".

In the season one finale of One Tree Hill, The Games that Play Us, Karen is talking to Lucas one last time before he leaves Tree Hill. Karen puts her arm around Lucas and says 'There is only one Tree Hill'.

There are a few episodes that do their own title drop, as well, such as "Lie To Me" and "Two to Go". Also, the musical episode, "Once More With Feeling", has the title in a line of the second-last song.

This happens with the episode title of Season 3's "Dead Man's Party".

Most (if not all, there's a couple I haven't caught) episodes of Buffy do this. Yes, even "What's my line" (some of them sneak it in via central pieces of music, such as "I only have eyes for you" and "Once more with feeling")

Many episodes of Angel featured Title Drops, though not every one of them. Not surprising since Angel was the main character and the main characters work for Angel Investigations. It also wasn't necessarily a key moment of the episode. Prominent ones include "A Hole In The World" and "Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been".

The Sopranos drops a title almost every episode. This became more and more noticeable as the series went on and got more and more unusual titles. In the first season, for example, there were titles like "Meadowlands" (though that, in a subversion, wasn't actually said until the following episode), "College", "A Hit Is A Hit", and "Nobody Knows Anything" (which was used at least twice in the ep). In the sixth season, you had things like "The Fleshy Part Of The Thigh" (which is where a supporting character offers to shoot a wannabe gangsta rapper, nonlethally and with minimal complications, in order to give him street cred).

That Girl famously ended its opening segments with somebody pointing at the title character and saying "That Girl!", with a sometimes contrived and convoluted lead-in to get to that point.

Saturday Night Live ends its opening skit with "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", a slightly rearranged version of the show title which had its origins in the rather obscure fact that when the show launched in 1975, its actual title was Saturday Night rather than Saturday Night Live because the latter title was already taken for the short-lived Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell.

The X-Files is fond of this trope, especially for their myth-arc episodes. A few however are misnomers and refer to scape goats and not the real culprits. An example would be the episode "The Red Museum" which features the eponymous cult who were victims in the mystery, not the culprits like the town believed.

Every episode in the HBO miniseries Generation Kill, though the conversations are often not particularly important to the plot.

Parodied in Two and a Half Men. There is usually a Title Drop in the episode, but it is usually a completely irrelevant line that gets little attention drawn to it and has no impact on the plot.

Mr. Show inverts the trope by choosing a completely random line from each episode as the title, such as, "Oh, you men!"

Many episodes of Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister end with a character, usually Sir Humphrey or Bernard, responding to something Hacker has said by saying "Yes, (Prime) Minister." Nigel Hawthorne, showing his serious actor chops, made a point of saying this with a different emotion every time.

By the time of the Christmas Special at the end of season 3, this was the expected ending to each episode; so when Humphrey revealed Hacker's promotion by saying "Yes, Prime Minister" for the first time, it was quite an aversion.

Parodied in Blackadder when Edmund decides to take the name of The Black...Vegetable! Fortunately Baldrick suggests a better title for the series his Lord.

Played with in "Wishful Thinking." Sam claims to be writing a book to get a witness to talk to him. When she asks the title, he has to think quickly to come up with "Uh, well, the working title is...Supernatural?"

Subverted in "It's a Terrible Life." Sam (who is actually Sam Wesson, in an alternate reality) comments about the suspicious deaths in the episode, "What if these suicides aren't suicides? I mean, what if they're something not natural?"

Dean delivers this speech to Lucifer in "The End":

Dean: You're the same thing, only bigger. The same brand of cockroach I've been squashing my whole life. An ugly, *evil*, belly to the ground supernatural piece of crap. The only difference between them and you... is the size of your ego.

Sam does this in "The French Mistake". A twofer, since he's actually referring to (a fictional representation of) the real show, rather than some other element in the story.

Also happens on "Party On, Garth".

The Men of Letters Bunker is described at one point as "the supernatural mother load."

'By its very definition, Glee is about opening yourself up to joy.' Done again, various times, for episode titles, eg. "Thanks, Grilled Cheesus!". They even managed to drop the title with a song for the episode Extraordinary Merry Christmas.

Smallville sometimes Title Drop the episode title in an awkward, glaring, and embarrassing manner. A few examples:

The Closer plays it straight in the pilot episode, as this is how Pope describes Brenda. In a later episode, it's played for laughs, as a funeral director under investigation says "I'm what's known as the closer", meaning he's the one who inspects the bodies and closes the coffins before funerals. Brenda and Sgt. Gabriel share a surprised look when the word is mentioned.

Near the end of As the World Turns 53 year run, Bob Hughes (the who started out as the preteen son of the central family and ended up as the patriarch), says in a speech "Every day that the world keeps turning is a gift."

The National Geographic Channel show Taboo does this during every segment of the show. For example, the narrator may say "Some people consider X to be taboo", with extra emphasis on taboo. Arguably justified because that is an actual word.

The Shadow Line has a lot of musings on the theme of shadows, lines and light throughout the series, but the title itself is only dropped once, during a conversation about Gabriel's possible corruption in episode 5.

In-universe examples from Seinfeld: Whenever the gang goes to the movies, the film(s) they watch often feature title drops.

In Razor, Admiral Cain awards Kendra Shaw the eponymous title, which she applies to the most loyal and merciless of her soldiers.

In The Plan, it's first used in print on Brother Cavil's religious flyers, and subsequently in spoken lines by the Cylons.

How I Met Your Mother has been title-dropped several times (including in the first minute of the pilot: "Kids, I'm going to tell you a wonderful story; the story of how I met your mother") both by Future!Ted and Past!Ted, generally couched in conversations and/or using variations ("Kids, there's more than one story of how I met your mother" "When I have kids, I'm gonna tell them the full story of how I met their mother").

The show tends to title drop almost every episode, with the few exceptions making perfect sense anyway (for example, "How Lily Stole Christmas", an episode that centers on Lily being called a "Grinch".

Farscape has a few episodes that drop their titles, such as "A Human Reaction", "Picture If You Will", "Dream a Little Dream", and "Dog With Two Bones". "Self-Infliced Wounds: Could'a, Would'a, Should'a" is partial example, as only the sub-title of the episode is dropped.

The true-crime TV show "Deadly Women" is a gross offender. The narrator is guaranteed to drop the name of the episode at LEAST once. For example, in the episode Hearts of Stone, she says "They killed... with Hearts of Stone."

Bob Kelso: Dr. Dorian, do you not realize that you're nothing but a large pair of scrubs to me?

In Game of Thrones, every episode is Title Dropped since the episodes are typically named after a significant line from them, and the titles aren't displayed. However, the one that tops them all is a series title drop and episode title drop in one line:

Cersei Lannister: When you play the game of thrones, you win... or you die. There is no middle ground.

The words in the show title were the very last spoken words in the series finale of Happy Days.

Fresnoparodied this with a Distant Prologue of Spanish explorers coming into the land that would one day be the city of Fresno, and it turns out the name is a word used to describe how nasty the grapes taste.

Played with by Terriers. Britt suggests to Hank that their private detective business needs a mascot, something that tells people that once they're on the case, they never give up. They think it over and can't come up with anything.

JAG: Occurs throughout the series times whenever a character introduces oneself followed by he/she is from JAG or is a JAG lawyer. Individual episode names are also often, but not always, dropped.

In "Brig Break", Harm looks out the window and sees the prisoners exiting the brig and herding Meg Austin onto a bus. He immediately shouts "BRIG BREAK" before trying to stop them from escaping.

Inverted on an episode of Raw in late 1997. Announcer Jim Ross had told the hot new Heel tag team of "Road Dogg" Jesse Jammes and "Badass" Billy Gunn that they had been acting like "a couple of new age outlaws." They soon became known as the New Age Outlaws.

Breaking Bad, from the pilot: "Some straight like you, giant stick up his ass, all the sudden, age — what, sixty? He's just gonna break bad?" This is a piece of regional slang in the city where the show is set as well.

Fowler: In the grand order of life there are but two forces: those of order, and those of chaos. And between them there lies us, the thin blue line.

(Goody immediately points out that that means three forces.)

Virtually every episode of The Lone Ranger TV series ends with some variant of the following:

Townsman #1: Who was that masked man?

Townsman #2: That was the Lone Ranger.

At the start of the second episode of Sons Of Liberty, Benjamin Franklin comments in a meeting with British leaders: "If you make martyrs of these men, the people of Boston won’t see these men as sons of tyranny. They’ll be seen as sons of liberty."

The Walking Dead: Expect the episode names to be uttered by any of the characters within the episode. The series title is dropped by Rick after the group is driven from the farm, and he reveals they're all infected.

He drops it again in episode 10 of the fifth season.

The Wonder Years final episode: "And the thing is, after all these years, I still look back... with wonder."

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